EVE New Citizens Q&A

Yeah there is this odd assumption many new people have that by your second month in the game you should be able to PLEX your account for free. I am sure that is possible if you excel at scamming or station trading but as a new character trying to PLEX your subs will just mean you never have any ISK.

Assuming you are NOT station trading, longterm single account plexing options usually involve:

- some lowsec PI which using all three characters, each with 6 planets, shipping P2s gives a passive income between 10 and 25 mill per day.
- level IV mission running which can reliably return 30 mill to 80 mill an hour depending on skills so an hour a day
- incursions which are more like 100 mill plus an hour though you lose a bit getting there and waiting for a fleet

I suspect PLEX costs are getting to a point that mining and exploration are going to be stretching it for plex.

Though hisec mining in highsec in a procurer in a quiet system while afk doing something else is in a sense "free" money and a procurer can pay for itself in a few hours mining, so you can afford to lose the odd one to gankers and still be ahead. Still you would need to mine for several hours every night to PLEX with a single character even in a fleet with boosts.

I just found out that I have to pay 30 bucks to train an alt character per month? I pay 20 bucks a month just to play this game and now i have to pay 20 more to play a second and 3 slot. I have never in all my time of paying MMOs seen such greed by the developers.

When I purchased an account i saw three slot with four fractions and I figure great i can try out the different factions but with out being able to train skill on alts it kills the game for me. I see charging people to pay more to play an alt as a scam. I would like to hear reason in this.

The only solution i have for you is remove the charge, reduce it to a few bucks, or make it a permanent feature once paid for. I will not continue to pay 50 a month for the game.

The hardest part about starting in EVE, is leaving all your preconceptions of what an MMO is by your past experiences. EVE is no clone and is very unique. What you see on the surface through your preconceptions is not necessarily the undercurrents that travel thru this games deeper universe. Do not try to bend the spoon — that's impossible. Instead, only try to realize the truth: there is no spoon.